Modern Toss

Modern Toss is a British comic by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage. Renowned for their scurrilous humour and highly stylised animation, it was created in 2004, initially as a website publishing single panel jokes and then as series of irregularly released comics. To date there have been seven comics, with the early ones now highly collectable (especially the second, with its free sample of royal hair). The first four comics were republished as two books by Macmillan and two TV series were produced for Channel 4 and distributed worldwide by Fremantle Media.

Prior to starting Modern Toss, Jon Link and Mick Bunnage were on the original launch team for Loaded magazine, where they developed their first joint cartoon strip 'Office Pest'.

Comics and books

Since 2004, eight issues of Modern Toss have been published as comics plus one Christmas Special in 2007. Only Issues 5 to 8 are still in print and some of the early editions are now highly collectable.

The early editions of the comics were part funded by advance subscriptions of enthusiasts who discovered Modern Toss cartoons on the web and eventually became the ‘Friends of Modern Toss’ – always credited on the final page each of the comics.

Toss (2015 film)

Toss (formerly Ondu Roopayalli Eradu Preethi) is an upcoming Indian Kannada-language film starring actor Vijay Raghavendra, Sandeep and Ramya Barna in the lead and directed by noted film maker Dayal Padmanabhan. This film, under the banner of D Pictures and Om productions was launched by Puneet Rajkumar on 27 January 2012.
Taking cue from Kamal Haasan and the Malayalam film industry, director and producer Dayal Padmanabhan is planning to release this Kannada film Toss online on 11 September, the day he plans to release it at the theaters.

Reception

General reviews of Toss have been negative. Amongst the reasons for that include bad acting by some of the lead actors and implausible direction in several scenes, although Prashant, Ashmit's and Aarti's performance has been appreciated. Noted film critic Taran Adarsh initially gave the film 3 stars, but lowered it to just 1 later.

Modern (Amber Smith album)

Modern is the sixth studio album recorded by Amber Smith. The album was released on 6th April 2015 by the German Kalinkaland Records. This was the first record with guitarist Tamás Faragó and bassist Oleg Zubkov.

Didone (typography)

Didone is a genre of seriftypeface that emerged in the late 18th century and is particularly popular in Europe. It is characterized by:

Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. (The serifs have a constant width along their length.)

Vertical orientation of weight axes. (The vertical strokes of letters are thick.)

Strong contrast between thick and thin lines. (Horizontal parts of letters are thin in comparison to the vertical parts.)

Some stroke endings show ball terminals. (Many lines end in a teardrop or circle shape, rather than a plain wedge-shaped serif.)

An unornamented, "modern" appearance.

The category is also known as modern or modern face serif fonts, in contrast to old style serif designs, which date to the Renaissance period.

History

Didone types were developed by printers including Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni and Justus Erich Walbaum, whose eponymous typefaces, Bodoni, Didot, and Walbaum, remain in use today. Their goals were to create more elegant, classical designs of printed text, developing the work of John Baskerville in Birmingham and Fournier in France towards a more extreme, precise design with intense precision and contrast, showing off the increasingly refined printing and paper-making technologies of the period. These trends were also accompanied by changes to page layout conventions and the abolition of the long s.

Modern (album)

Reception

Critical response to Modern has been mixed-to-negative.

Michael Sandlin of Pitchfork called it "wholly ill-conceived and mind-numbingly dull" and that "[it] seems like a weak attempt by a once-great band to simply sound 'current', whatever that means." Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club, on the other hand, wrote "the band reunited in time to ride the new punk wave, but something was missing from its two capable comeback albums. The new Modern is something else entirely: Essentially picking up where the band left off in 1981, the ironically-titled disc sounds like it was recorded just as punk turned into new wave", calling it "retro in the best sense".